Abdulaziz Abdulaziz wrote: Trust our man. He has this unpretentious way of not disappointing even his staunchest foes. The outing was anything but a success. First, the piece read, at best, like a school composition. It is like a student answering the question; You are the president of your school’s Poultry Club and over 250 chicks have been abducted from the farmhouse, without any trace. Write an essay suitable for publication in your school magazine, explaining away your failure and why you have been lethargic about taking action to rescue the chicks. Just as you would expect from a student’s composition, there was neither profound explanation about the situation of the abducted girls and the rescue efforts, nor was there a nuanced extrapolation of the larger issue as would be expected of someone who is a president, and a PhD holder to boot. In sum, because of the feeble crutches the Washington Post piece is hinged on, the President, to our collective embarrassment, ended up like the proverbial he-goat who went on a tryst and returned pregnant. We have seen how disdainfully the world received that piece as exemplified by that scathing editorial of the New York Post of June 27. I still don’t want to comment on the $1.2 million whitewashing contract awarded to US-based PR firm, Levick because the government itself is still too shocked as to fathom why this one got leaked again. Oga Jonah may still be pondering about the discomforting lack of secrecy of the Western corporations and businesses. Here, our companies chop with the left and have a serviette in the right hand; eating and cleaning up. The other time, a stupid Israeli company went to town celebrating the “lucrative” $40 million surveillance contract it got from Nigeria. Oyibos don’t know how to do it quietly! But Levick is a very good PR firm, we must admit. If within days these guys would have an Abati draft an op-ed, get it edited and have it in Washington Post, what right do we have to complain? Our dollars are working. Follow me on Twitter: @AbdulFagge - Premium Times.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:56:52 +0000
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